Photo credit: Loïc Manegarium by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Most people, most audiologists, and most doctors don’t know that noise has non-auditory health effects, but it does. The scientific evidence is ample and incontrovertible, and well known in...
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Enhanced noise laws aren’t effective without enhanced enforcement
Photo credit: Abraham by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies My mother came to New York City from Toronto, as a young woman, married here, and had two children. When I was...
Electric passenger aircraft promotes quieter design
Photo credit: Joby Aviation by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition According to Aerospace America and the manufacturer, a prototype electric passenger aircraft, the Joby S4, produced low sound levels in its own and in NASA sound measurement tests. The report...
With helicopter noise complaints on the rise, governments must act
Photo credit: Charles Parker by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies With all the negatives COVID brought to New York City, the one positive that I heard from people who live...
The inconsideration of the noisy
Photo credit: Darya Sannikova by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies Michael Moynihan, The Irish Examiner, asks “Why is it that noisy people show no consideration for...
A project to save and reimagine disappearing sounds
Photo credit: Onur Yumlu by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition Cities and Memory is looking for participants in its new project, Obsolete Sounds, reimagining and remixing the obsolete and disappearing sounds of the world. I’m participating! I sent in...
Protecting infants’ and children’s hearing
Photo credit: Burst, released under Creative Commons Zero License by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition With coauthor Sophie Balk, we are proud to announce the publication of our latest article in The Hearing Journal on protecting infants' and children's...
More proof that noise affects children’s cognitive development
Photo credit: Aleksandar Pasaric by Arline L. Bronzaft, Ph.D., Board of Directors, GrowNYC, Co-founder, The Quiet Coalition, and Honorary Chair, Quiet American Skies “Children who attend schools with more traffic noise show lower cognitive development,” reads the...
Noise pollution is on the rise in India
Photo credit: Bhavesh Jain by Daniel Fink, MD, Chair, The Quiet Coalition This article in the Deccan Herald, based in Bengaluru, India (formerly known as Bangalore), discusses the rise in noise pollution as the city recovers from COVID lockdowns. Noise levels are...